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GO! MAGAZINE
Briefly
REVIEWS
Had Death Cab for Cutie simply built on the blueprint of "Plans," its 2005 mainstream breakthrough, the move would have made sense. After all, the alt-rock band had spent almost a decade toiling in the margins of pop and rock. Then the quartet received mass exposure in 2003 on the teen soap opera "The O.C." and signed with Atlantic Records soon afterward. "Plans" went platinum, and the band garnered a Grammy nomination.
Any attempt to incorporate Adolf Hitler into a work of fiction is inherently perilous. The historical, political and moral stakes are too high to admit even the small authorial misstep.
Those nagging "minor" problems that burdened "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" take center stage in "Prince Caspian," the second of seven "Chronicles of Narnia" to make it to the big screen.
It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online racing mode that makes the best use of the Wii's Wi-Fi capabilities to date.
The classic authors who appear as fictionalized characters in "Wild Nights!" aren't the ones most of us met in Intro to American Literature. Edgar Allan Poe copulating with a one-eyed amphibian? Mark Twain pursuing pubescent girls? Henry James clubbing a cat to death? Joyce Carol Oates may cause a few elderly professors to keel over, but the rest of us can take perverse delight in her five surreal tales.
"What Happens in Vegas" follows the standard romcom design, giving us two neurotic people who are in love with each other but don't know it. But by being a smidge smarter than the average date movie, it makes the bumpy course of true love entertaining despite overfamiliarity.
Brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski have rewritten the laws of nature to create the color palette for their new feature film "Speed Racer." There are hues that have never been seen by the human eye.
Even Southwestern border Minutemen may find their resolve softening at this emotionally opulent tale of a Mexican boy's chutes-and-ladders odyssey to Los Angeles. Nine-year-old Carlitos Reyes (Adrian Alonso) gets daily long-distance calls from his single mother, Rosario (Kate Del Castillo), who juggles two maid gigs a day in L.A. with the hope of someday sending for her son. When Carlitos' grandmother dies, the whip-smart kid pays a pair of American students to smuggle him into the United States. Screenwriter Ligiah Villalobos strews Carlitos' and his mother's concurrent paths with enough incidents and characters to power a half-dozen movies. Villalobos and director Patricia Riggen dispatch melodramatic complications and upbeat encounters alike with a button-pressing abandon that would be right at home on the pages of Dickens. "Under the Same Moon" earns its feel-good credentials with a surfeit of craft.
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Top DVDs Sales 1. "Cloverfield" 2. "Charlie Wilson's War" 3. "Juno" Rentals 1. "Cloverfield" 2. "Juno" 3. "Charlie Wilson's War" Video Business magazine |
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Top Tunes Pop single "Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis R&B/hip-hop single "Lollipop," Lil Wayne (featuring Static Major) Country single "I Saw God Today," George Strait Latin single "Te Quiero," Flex Billboard magazine |
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Bestsellers 1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow 2. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle 3. "The Whole Truth" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) (F-H) 4. "Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within" by Maria Shriver 5. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer USA Today |
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Box Office Top 10 1. "Iron Man": $98.6 million last weekend, $102.1 million total, one week. 2. "Made of Honor": $14.7 million, $14.7 million, one week. 3. "Baby Mama": $10 million, $32 million, two weeks. 4. "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay": $6.1 million, $25.3 million, two weeks.. 5. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall": $6 million, $44.7 million, three weeks. 6. "The Forbidden Kingdom": $4.1 million, $45.1 million, three weeks. 7. "Nim's Island": $2.6 million, $42.4 million, five weeks. 8. "Prom Night": $2.4 million, $41.3 million, four weeks. 9. "21": $2 million, $78.9 million, six weeks. 10. "88 Minutes": $1.5 million, $15.3 million, three weeks. Media By Numbers |
FROM YOU
While moms Jen Cooper and Trish Schmitten were out one day last November, dads Matt Cooper and Ray Schmitten took the kids on a hike around their hometown of Cashmere. "The picture was taken just below the letter C on the north-facing hills of Cashmere," Jen explains. "The hike was a little steeper than Ray had remembered, but the kids were troopers and made it to the first rock outcrop." The kids pictured, from left, are Rolland Schmitten, 4, Tyson Schmitten, 7, Ryan Cooper, 6, and Katelyn Cooper, 4.
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THE WELLS WILDLIFE AREA, located in Brewster, Washington, is seeking a temporary Farm Laborer/ Irrigator. 40 hrs./week, $10.13/hr. The position is expected to last 6-7 months. If you are interested or would like additional information, contact Marc Hallet at (509)686-4305 by April 29, 2008.
Headlines you may have missed from the last week
Developer selling off trailer park property
Teachers' union plays hardball in schools chief race
School district may buy $4 million skills center
Douglas PUD to supply TV service over Douglas, Grant fiber
Finally, we have a hockey team
Housing group gets $250,000 from city
Bridge to stay open during repairs
Omak police: DNA ties '98 murder to '06 rape
State OKs name change to Howard Lake
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2. Omak police: DNA ties '98 murder to '06 rape
3. Finally, we have a hockey team
4. Housing group gets $250,000 from city
5. Man run over, dies at street fight
6. Autopsy reveals Manson man died after being hit by pickup
7. State OKs name change to Howard Lake
8. Oh, so close: Eastmont soccer falls in a state tournament shootout
9. Bridge to stay open during repairs
10. Hockey coming to Wenatchee after all
